Note: The only issue in this song is that I am unfamiliar
with this termཟླ་སྒྲོལ་མ (da dröl ma) which is mentioned in the second verse; it is
presumably a famous statue (or place of pilgrimage) in Kham comparable to the
Jowo Rinpoche statue (mentioned in verse one) which is located in Lhasa. Drölma
means that it must represent the goddess Tara, with the prefix 'da' here being
short for 'da wa'ཟླ་བ་which means 'moon.' Besides that, the southern continent of
Jambudvipa mentioned here is from the four continents of Buddhist cosmology,
where we are residents of the southern continent. Also, where I have written
'H.H. the Dalai Lama' in brackets is another case where his name is not
directly mentioned, but it is implied with such an honorofic name:རྗེ་གོང་ས་བླ་མ (je kong sa la
ma) which could be translated as "the venerable guru [who resides on] the
higher [bodhistattva] bhumi" or The phraseགོང་ས (kong sa) is almost always
associated with H.H. the Dalai Lama in colloquial Tibetan these days, connoting
his high spiritual realization ("the higher bhumi"), and/or his high
status.

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Call of the White Crane

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